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Aussie kid escapes heart-stopping accident without a scratch

Look both ways, look again and then walk – don't run – across the road.

Pretty basic stuff, but one youngster eager to join his mates in the park didn't get the memo, as an ultimately very relieved Aussie driver found out yesterday evening.

Dashcam footage of the incident, which occurred just before 7pm on a quiet suburban street, shows the lad race out onto the road with nary a glance, only to be bounced sickeningly off the bonnet of the vehicle, which thankfully was travelling at a relatively low speed.

The young lad hops up just seconds after the collision, grinning and apparently completely uninjured, even giving the couple an apologetic wave as he jogs on to the park, full of beans and the resilience of youth.

"Please kids don't run out onto the road, this scared the crap out of us, but thankfully he's ok," the driver wrote in a note accompanying the vision.